“We have been asked to do something and we have done something. Spray painting may seem a silly thing to do but it’s drawing attention to the scale of the problem.

“It’s been the most talked about thing for years so it is good in raising awareness.”

Next stop will be a spray paint campaign in the villages in a bid to make owners pick up their dog’s mess.

Covert operations to watch people who are known dog mess perpetrators is difficult, he said, as officers have to be there to watch it being done.

They now wear black jackets instead of fluorescent council jackets in order to be less obtrusive.

In the last year there have been 290 complaints about dog poo across the four Fenland towns and 40 complaints in the villages.

“We aim to make a difference, this is an important environmental issue,” said Cllr Murphy.

The campaign follows the recent news that the first dog owner in the district has been fined for not picking up his dog’s mess.

The 46 year old March man was caught allowing his Jack Russell onto a street and then calling it back inside once its business had been done.

An enforcement officer was in Eastwood Avenue, March, when he spotted the offence being committed and issued a £75 fixed penalty notice to the man.

It was the first ‘poo-related’ fine since the fixed penalty notices were introduced in October 2012, to target anyone caught breaking dog control orders.

A Fenland District Council spokesman said: “Our enforcement officer was on hand to witness the man open his front door to let his dog out and allow it to do its business in the road outside his property before calling it back in.